Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [verb] me [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , the stressed housewife may take rights 3 and 7 and decide that : ‘ I have the right to suggest to my elderly mother-in-law that she enquire about the possibility of a home-help , as the demands she is making on me are wearing me out ’ . |
| 2 | They pushed through the padded door , back towards the dining room , and Miranda confided , ‘ When I 'm really on the breadline and someone 's taking me out , I sometimes tell them I have n't any change for Madame Pipi — they give me something . |
| 3 | There was a point when I wondered if someone was having me on , but few people even knew I had written in . |
| 4 | Nobody is bring me down ( said with anger ) . |
| 5 | and , and that 's er it 's all the slowness which was doing me in . |
| 6 | In a kindly voice ( for which , later , he felt like smacking her ) , she said , ‘ I think you are mixing me up with the child our mother had in the late 1930s . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ You 're ordering me around again , if that 's what you mean , ’ she replied , ‘ and if you think I 'm going to trot obediently upstairs and take off all my clothes you must take me for a fool . ’ |
| 8 | You 're setting me up . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You 're dropping Claudia off here , of course , then you 're taking me on to London , are n't you , Roman ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Why , Luke , ’ she exclaimed softly , ‘ it sounds as if you 're warning me off ! ’ |
| 11 | No you do it when you 're telling me off . |
| 12 | ‘ Dear God , Rory , ’ he murmured , ‘ you 're driving me out of my mind ! ’ |
| 13 | Millie you 're showing me up with your picture , it 's not very good . |
| 14 | D d I 've put I 've not gone too political on this and you 're running me down already I do n't know . |
| 15 | ‘ You 're having me on , ’ said the boy looking at Philip . |
| 16 | ‘ You 're having me on … . |
| 17 | You 're having me on ! " |
| 18 | I remember thinking , come on you 're having me on . |
| 19 | ‘ You 're having me on , Jim . ’ |
| 20 | I think you 're having me on now John . |
| 21 | ‘ You 're having me on . ’ |
| 22 | You 're knocking me off . |
| 23 | ‘ You 're putting me on . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ You 're putting me on . |
| 25 | You 're winding me up . ’ |
| 26 | You 're winding me up ! |
| 27 | ‘ And as I recall , you were kissing me back . |
| 28 | Er I thought you did well in erm giving yourself credibility by talking about the shares , oh yes you can have two hundred and fifty pounds per month in the shares and they 've done well and I said oh yes they have done well , and I felt good that you were praising me up for being such a clever chap , and so I thought that was all , all jolly good stuff . |
| 29 | You were testing me out , to see if — if I 'd stopped being timid with men , is n't that it ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I am sure one of them attached this little blighter to your TV set in the short time you were showing me in . |